Time Warner testing usage-based billing

[Alex]

I understand people getting used to the system and not wanting it to change (particularly if you're currently engaged in a project of downloading the entire history of cinema from bittorrent.

I just think it is weird that the idea of someone changing it is causing some people (nobody here really) to act as if TW is now requiring payment in children and eggshells. Like it is some wholly bizarre and terribly unethical method that has never before existed.

I never had AOL or any of the minute-based plans so I don't know exactly how they worked but I hope TW doesn't actually block access but just start charging more. I also hope they have tools for you to track your usage, and warnings when you are approaching a threshold.